about how Former State Senator Scott Brown introduced Elena Kagan to the Senate Judiciary Committee and then last week proceded to vote against her confirmation to the Supreme Court. The usual suspects in the local punditariat are all stroking their chins and theorizing.
Adrian Walker in Today's Globe thinks Brown is too enamored with his status as a political celebrity-blah-blah-blah and for that fact the Former State Senator does give off the faint whiff of having won the seat off of some ass-clown reality show.
I think this is the same sort of clumsily amateurish opportunism that characterized Mitt Romney's political career to date. Back when the Former Viceroy first seized power on Beacon Hill, I thought (along with dozens of other bloggers) that Mitt was essentially a closet conservative waiting for his moment to ideologically colonize Massachusetts.
The reality is though, that Romney is so cravenly self interested that mere ideology is a rhetoric that needs only be "gamed" in order to win.
This accounts for Romney's twists and turns on gay rights, abortion and a host of other issues, the ideological spectrum he spanned from the night he lost the New Hampshire Primary to the night he won the Michigan Primary is sets the national standard for brazen flip-floppery.
I'm wondering if Brown falls into the same category?
Neither a moderate or a conservative just a supremely selfish man with a preening ego that must needs be fed. It makes sense the only other successful Massachusetts Republican Brown could conceivably model himself on, is Romney, and Mitt is out for himself always and everywhere.
Hence the Kagan flip flop... and Like Romney, Brown couldn't care less about the appearance of cupidity because he and the Former Viceroy don't think anyone is paying attention.
Which is a sign of dangerous amateurishness to Humble Elias.
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